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Monthly Archives: March 2019

A few weeks ago, I drove north to spend a week at my daughter’s house because her kids had the flu. Whenever I told others I couldn’t fulfill my ordinary responsibilities and told them we’d have to cancel or ask them to fill in for me, when I said, “The kids have the flu,” these words came to mind: “but it’s sure nice talking to you Dad, I know we’ll get together soon, Dad. I’m sure we’ll have a good time, then.”

That’s how I remember the words to the Harry Chapin
song, “Cat’s in the Cradle,” from a concert I heard many years ago at college.

That song reminds me of a verse from the Old Testament
and one from the New Testament in the New King James Version of the Bible:

Malachi 4:6 And he will turn The hearts of the
fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest
I come and strike the earth with a curse.

Luke 1:17 He will also go before Him in the
spirit and power of Elijah, ‘TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE
CHILDREN,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a
people prepared for the Lord.”

I have not written as much
lately because I spent thirteen days with my children and four grandchildren.
Three of the grandkids caught the flu, so I drove north to babysit them for a
week. The rest of the time they visited us during February break from school
while construction workers replaced ceilings, put in overhead lights, and
refashioned an archway between two rooms, etc. at their home.

I love being with family-playing games, making meals and doing dishes, catching up on laundry. Fortunately for me, they just had fevers and coughs when I reached them on Sunday night. Although, I kept telling them to cover their mouths when they coughed and to turn their heads. “I don’t want to catch the flu!”

Recently, I lost some of
my joy because I live in New York State. Our legislators passed a bill that if
the mother of an unborn baby has any reason for wanting to abort that child,
for whatever medical reason they can come up with, at any time before the little
one leaves the womb, they can let the medical person know and the human being
is killed. It may be hours from birth, a perfectly viable life and get snuffed
out.

Then to add to my
distress, living in the land of the free, the land of the brave, dear God, how
far have we fallen, the senators in Washington, D.C., including our New York
State representatives, voted that if a living baby survives the attempted
murder during a botched abortion, no medical care will be extended. The tiny
person is not offered a blanket or something to suck on for sustenance. It’s
left to die. I never thought I’d hear of INFANTICIDE in this country.

So, I haven’t felt like blogging, I’m sorry to say. I’ve taken joy from the children around me. I’ve cried out to God to soften the hearts of people that probably would be outraged at the inhumane treatment of animals and yet, disregard the lives of babies that God says He knows as they’re fashioned in the wombs of their mothers in Psalm 139:13-16.

I know times get worse
before Jesus comes back and an increase in evil comes forth as people reject
God and His ways. It’s just hard to see it and understand. When President Obama
was a senator in Illinois, he was the only politician to vote to let a newborn
languish on the table if the abortion failed. That wasn’t that long ago. The
U.S. senate has two senators per state, and they only needed seven more votes
to protect the little ones. They got 53 votes. That means 67 people said, “Let
the infant die,” although I heard the weather kept some senators from reaching
Washington, D.C. on time. But, did they wait for a larger turn out? No!

I think the senate should
have been mandated to go to an abortion clinic and see what happens before they
cast their votes. And if they came to New York State, they would see that the
providers don’t have to be a doctor to perform an abortion. So much for the
safety of the mother.

I took science fiction
courses in college back in the day, and some of the stuff that I shuddered over
back then and felt would never happen is upon us now. So, I pray for people to
wake up and consider what they believe and why they believe it. Is it worth
killing babies for the convenience of the mother? Many women suffer after they’ve
taken the lives of their child with depression, breast cancer, and infertility.
One thing I’ve heard-the younger generation is not believing the embryo is
fertilized tissue with no life at conception. So, I try to remain hopeful and I
pray that people won’t want to use these so-called “freedoms” of choice. Then
it won’t matter what’s in the law books.

If you read through my
rant, God bless you. Maybe if enough people stand up and say this isn’t right,
the politicians will understand their tenure is on shaky grounds.